Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Iran has produced the minimum amount of low-enriched uranium needed to make a bomb if it was processed to weapons grade, a scenario that would first require the expulsion of UN inspectors, arms-control experts said.
``There is definitely cause for concern,'' Andreas Persbo, a senior researcher at the London-based Verification Research, Training and Information Center, said by telephone today. ``Their uranium conversion operations are going quite well.''
The uranium is stored at the Natanz plant and monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, an arm of the United Nations that oversees adherence to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. At the current level of enrichment, the uranium could fuel a power station. The treaty prohibits further enrichment to weapons grade. Since March 2007, the IAEA has made 20 unannounced visits to Natanz, where it has remote surveillance equipment. More >>>
